Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Lunch Box

This was my lunch box when I was a kid. I not only had the lunch box. I had the whole rig. The rifle. The hat. The whole migilla.

If a kid brought this lunchbox to school he would get arrested. Let alone what was in it. Maybe a meatball sub, a bottle of Yohoo and a couple of Yodels. The food police would give you the death penalty.

I lost the lunch box some time ago but when I was walking past the little antiques store on the corner I saw another one. So I bought it.

I bring it to the store every day for lunch.

15 comments:

chickelit said...

I had a "Rat Patrol" lunch box. Machine guns mounted on jeeps blowing up Gerries...I don't think so these days.

chickelit said...

You really were a "Brownstone Cowboy" Troop.

edutcher said...

I had the original Davy Crockett - fighting Indians, killing grizzlies.

I mean shooting stuff with Old Betsy.

Too bad it din't have the Alamo on it.

2 minorities, an endangered species, firearms.

What made America great.

PS Troop, There's a commenter called Wagon Weal elsewhere.

Ever get crossways of him 'cause he sure doesn't like you.

Trooper York said...

Meade has a lot of sock puppets. I don't worry too much ed. Life is too short.

AllenS said...

For the life of me, I can't remember what lunch box I had in the early grades. I do remember that when an option of having a hot lunch, I (ok maybe my mom) went for the hot lunch.

I do remember when I got my first job, I had a black lunch box, with the little thermos on the top. I carried that until the large corporation that I worked for, hired an outside outfit to provide hot meals at work. Couldn't pass it up.

Trooper York said...

When you are a kid your lunch box was a big thing. There was a competition. I don't know what kids do today. There are so many stories about the teachers confiscating "unacceptable" food that I think I would have been arrested for the contents of my lunch box.

ampersand said...

I have a feeling the Bonanza boys ate a lot of quiche and arugula.

edutcher said...

Ben, Adam, and Hoss, certainly.

Little Joe, I'm not so sure.

chickelit said...

Rat Patrol lunchbox. That's the one!

Dad Bones said...

Every kid's lunch box was destined to get a dent or two, but God help you when you got home if that glass liner in the thermos got broken.

edutcher said...

That happened all the time.

I went through the colonel, Roy Rogers (a couple times), can't remember all of them.

NorthOfTheOneOhOne aka Doug Emhoff's Pimp Hand said...

I had a Wild Wild West lunch box, the thermos broke about 15 mins after I got it.

ampersand said...

I have a feeling the Bonanza boys ate a lot of quiche and arugula.

Rumor has it that Ben Cartwright actually had 4 more sons, but one night Hoss felt a bit peckish....well, you can guess the rest.

chickelit said...

The "Wild Wild West" was a great show. I'm surprised that Troop never spoofed it.

Come on -- I Dare You

rcocean said...

You kids in the big cities were rich. We never got TV show lunch boxes. I had a plain Red plaid one.

My mom always gave us sandwiches made from leftovers - chicken, roast beef, etc. We go a lot of Jello too. I don't think they sell that stuff anymore.

rcocean said...

The Wild Wild West spoofed itself.